Resembling Quotes

64 Resembling quotes by 59 unique authors

The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,… — Hal Porter
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but… — Charles Lamb
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. — William Shakespeare
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,… — Plato
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling… — George F. Kennan
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might… — Ian MacKaye
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. — Rudyard Kipling
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. — Vladimir Nabokov
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that… — Lewis Thomas
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island… — Martin Filler
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. — Mark Twain
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something… — Suzanne Collins
It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on… — Suzanne Collins
Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections." Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that… — Christine Feehan
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling… — Vladimir Nabokov
Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or… — Elizabeth Wein

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